600-word version: “You deserve the name Lego; you were the Lego block between me and the other girls.” She said to me on the breakfast table one day. I felt as though I had been asked out by the cutest boy in school while gasping for breath yawning and trying to rub the wax off of my d..

539-word version: ‘Just run with your eyes closed. There is nothing to fear. What you see will only waver your determination.’ - My mother, 연도, 도시명 Standing on the starting line, those words rang in my ears. This would be my last chance and I had to take it. So I ran off, my eyes..

“Phony” is the word that haunts me when I think of Model United Nations—my Eros. What is the point in merely discussing famine, AIDS, civil conflict, sexual abuse, child abuse, racism and other banes of our society? Discussions alone do not change reality... I hence became aware..

456-word version: Cornell – College of Arts and Sciences – Biological Science ...One day, my sister and I were watching television and saw an astronomer floating freely above the moon’s surface. A world that never seemed possible captivated my sister, who was merely a six year o..

402-word version: Biochemistry – Cornell (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) One of the programs in school that changed my life was Habitat for Humanity. Offered once a year to thirty students from our school, the objective of the program is to travel to third world countries and help..

194-word version: U Penn ...From these experiences, I have cultivated an inspiration to study biology and chemistry so I may someday develop new medicines and techniques that would be affordable to the world’s poor and become an influential but unaffected benefactor...